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" Reel knockouts : "
edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King.
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BL
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978554
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b732924
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| Title & Author
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Reel knockouts : : violent women in the movies /\ edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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Austin, TX :: University of Texas Press,, 2001.
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1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0292798857
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0292752504
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0292752512
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9780292752504
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9780292752511
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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What's a mean woman like you doing in a movie like this? / Neal King and Martha McCaughey -- "If her stunning beauty doesn't bring you to your knees, her deadly drop kick will": violent women in the Hong Kong Kung Fu film / Wendy Arons -- If looks could kill: power, revenge, and stripper movies / Jeffrey A. Brown -- The gun and the badge: Hollywood and the female lawman / Carol M. Dole -- Caged heat: the (R)evolution of women-in-prison films / Suzanna Danuta Walters -- Sharon Stone's (An)Aesthetic / Susan Knobloch -- Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to: memory, haunting, and revenge in Dolores Claiborne / Laura Grindstaff -- Waiting to set it off: African American women and the sapphire fixation / Kimberley Springer -- The gun-in-the-handbag, a critical controversy, and a primal scene / Barbara L. Miller -- Action heroines and female viewers: what women have to say / Tiina Vares -- Imagined violence/queer violence: representations of rage and resistance / Judith Halberstam.
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Violence in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Femmes au cinéma.
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Violence au cinéma.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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Violence in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/6522
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PN1995.9.W6R454 2001eb
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King, Neal,1963-
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McCaughey, Martha,1966-
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